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Location:

Tooele & Ivins,UT,USA

Member Since:

Oct 30, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

St. George Marathon 20-year Club (completed 26)

Boston Marathon 2006, 2007, 2008, 2016, 2017 (+DNF 2011)

Running for 39 years, logged 58,000 miles since 1982. 38 marathons.

Old Man PR's:

5K = 19:58 - July 4th Freedom Run 7/4/08

6K = 26:38 - Cold Turkey Rrrun, 11/23/06

10K = 43:00 - Deseret News, 7/24/08

1/2 Marathon = 1:32:54 - Hobble Creek, 8/23/08

Marathon = 3:23:13 - St. George, 10/4/08 (Boston Qualifier)

Boston Best: 3:35:07, 4/21/08 (Boston Qualifier)

Boston Worst:  DNF, 4/18/11 

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Keep running!

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep running for another 20 years.

Personal:

Married for 44 years to a wonderful and supportive wife. She's run 2 marathons herself in our earlier years so that helps.  4 boys, all married, and 10 grandchildren.  2 sons are runners. I celebrated 39 years of running madness, insanity, or at least OCD, on August 23rd, 2021. 

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Nike Free Lifetime Miles: 22.50
Saucony Peregrine Trail Lifetime Miles: 318.15
Asics 2000 Aqua #2 Lifetime Miles: 419.50
Asics 2000 Aqua #3 Lifetime Miles: 393.10
Asics 2000 Gray/Yellow Lifetime Miles: 610.30
Saucony Peregrine Trail #2 Lifetime Miles: 168.40
Asics 2000 Aqua #4 Lifetime Miles: 355.00
Thu, Jun 25, 2009
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
6.003.009.00

3 miles with Gina at the track this morning at 5:15 a.m.  1/2 mile to and from plus another 2 up to the base of the dam and back along the old canyon road.  Not feeling the best this morning so I took it really easy the entire run.  Still....it's good to be back running steady.

Evening run:  3 miles total.  Started my first Yasso 800's this year.  Did better than expected 2 x 800 in 3:28 and 3:27 with 400 recovery after each.  1/2 mile down and back from track.  I need to be careful with these, but they didn't seem to bother me as much as running on the downhills have been.  We'll se how they go.

Comments
From marion on Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 23:53:16 from 71.213.113.143

I'm glad the Yasso's worked well for you, Coach Arti :)

From artichoke on Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 21:38:47 from 71.38.247.20

Me too. That's quasi-coach, because I really don't know what the hell I'm doing even after 27 years of running.

From marion on Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 16:07:21 from 71.213.113.143

Oh No Arti! Speaking from a new runner like me, help from seasoned runners in SO valuable!!! It means ALL the world to us newbies :)

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